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Earth Abides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Connie Willis
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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Winner of the first International Fantasy Award. George R. Stewart (1895-1980) was a Professor of English at the University of California. He published a number of novels, including two studies of natural catastrophe, Storm and Fire. Earth Abides is his only work of science-fiction.
Published to great acclaim in 1949, Earth Abides is generally regarded as the classic tale of life struggling on after a global disaster. This audio edition celebrates the 60th anniversary of this science-fiction masterwork and includes a special introduction written and read by Hugo Award-winning writer Connie Willis.
A mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually, in San Francisco, he encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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The Day of the Triffids
- De: John Wyndham
- Narrado por: Kingsley Ben-Adir
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Start But Story Drags After Awhile
- De Greg G. en 12-31-22
De: John Wyndham
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 228
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Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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The Death of Grass
- De: John Christopher
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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A viral strain has attacked rice crops in East Asia causing massive famine; soon a mutation appears which infects the staple crops of West Asia and Europe such as wheat and barley, threatening a worldwide famine. Christopher's classic post-apocalyptic novel follows the struggles of architect John Custance and his family as they make their way across an England that is rapidly descending into anarchy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, frightening story
- De Linda B en 03-28-11
De: John Christopher
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When the Tripods Came
- Tripods Series Prequel (Book 4)
- De: John Christopher
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
The story of The Tripods was the basis of a popular BBC television series in the 1980s, where humanity has been conquered and enslaved by "the tripods", unseen alien entities that travel about in gigantic three-legged walking machines.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay, but doesn’t live up to the main trilogy
- De Dr F en 02-19-23
De: John Christopher
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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Far North
- A Novel
- De: Marcel Theroux
- Narrado por: Yelena Schmulenson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding!
- De Joan en 01-14-10
De: Marcel Theroux
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Dr. Bloodmoney
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 117
What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Post nuclear apocalyptic surburban middle class
- De Michael G Kurilla en 01-04-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 839
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 735
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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Time Is the Simplest Thing
- De: Clifford Simak
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Space travel has been abandoned in the 22nd century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient - and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain. Their secret is the use of "parries", human beings with the remarkable telepathic ability to expand their minds throughout the universe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An old SciFy story but a good one.
- De Bob Wilson en 01-26-18
De: Clifford Simak
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The Violent Bear It Away
- De: Flannery O’ Connor
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,039
The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle - that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensue, as Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet, while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more “reasonable” modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Biblical, American and Absolutely Brutal
- De Darwin8u en 10-22-12
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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- De: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrado por: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 337
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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Into the Out Of
- De: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Earth is being invaded by the shetani - spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak, and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Book by a Master Storyteller!
- De Tracy Michael Herring en 05-03-21
De: Alan Dean Foster
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Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,039
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28,472
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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Freddy and Fredericka
- De: Mark Helprin
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 25 h y 29 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 211
Best-selling, critically acclaimed author Mark Helprin's work has drawn favorable comparisons to an elite group of literary legends, including James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Mann. Helprin's sheer comic brilliance shines in this ingenious farce.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't rate it high enough (and I'm a tough grader)
- De Annette en 09-06-05
De: Mark Helprin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Earth Abides
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- Ginny Hope
- 08-25-15
Amazing and wonderful book
I absolutely loved this book. Even though it was quite long every moment was worth listening to.
Stunning narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-18-22
DDT fixes all.
Sometimes this book is a little dated and racist. Every time DDT was mentioned I laughed.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- sjouke
- 09-20-15
Slow and very drawn out in the end
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Given the time at which this book is written (and it really needs to be considered when listening so as to understand it a little better), this is a very good story. The look into human nature in such a post apocolyptic event is very interesting. The story is very drawn out in the end, the last couple hours being more of an epilogue that doesnt really add much or finish off too many storylines
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